Comment Re:not enough... (Score 2) 54
Statistically speaking you are far more likely to die in the car on the way to the airport than in the plane.
Comment Re:Uhm... (Score 3, Informative) 50
Here is the apology email
Comment Not alll six are actually visible (Score 1) 38
According to https://science.nasa.gov/solar... only two of the six will be actually visible.
From the article ""Planet Parade" note: Some online sources have shared excitement about a "parade of planets" visible in the morning sky in early June (June 3 in particular). In reality, only two of the six planets supposedly on display (Saturn and Mars) will actually be visible. "
Submission + - The Apple IIgs: On A Machine This Slow, You Had To Get Weird.
garote writes: It's the year 1991. You're a teenage computer geek.
You've just upgraded to an Apple IIgs, your first "16-bit" computer. To relieve the crushing boredom of your High School coursework, you and your friends embark on the computer geek equivalent of forming a heavy metal band: Making your own video game.
You meet at the benches during lunch hour, and pass around crude plans scribbled on graph paper. You assign each other impressive titles like "Master Programmer", "Sound Designer", and "Area Data Input". You swap 3.5" disks like furtive secret agents, and stay up coding untl 3am. Your parents look at your owlish eyes — and your slipping grades — and ask if you're "on drugs".
If that sounds familiar, this essay may prove interesting. It uses the game my friends and I started — but didn't finish — in High School over 30 years ago, to explore the absurd programming contortions we did to make it playable on the Apple IIgs: The red-headed stepchild of the Apple II line; a machine that languished for six years without a hardware upgrade to avoid competing with the Macintosh.
Thanks to the recent release of the first cycle-accurate emulator for this machine, you can actually play the game in all its screen-tearing glory. You can also explore the source code which has survived for 30 years, and been adapted to build on modern hardware thanks to Merlin32 and CiderPress II.
You've just upgraded to an Apple IIgs, your first "16-bit" computer. To relieve the crushing boredom of your High School coursework, you and your friends embark on the computer geek equivalent of forming a heavy metal band: Making your own video game.
You meet at the benches during lunch hour, and pass around crude plans scribbled on graph paper. You assign each other impressive titles like "Master Programmer", "Sound Designer", and "Area Data Input". You swap 3.5" disks like furtive secret agents, and stay up coding untl 3am. Your parents look at your owlish eyes — and your slipping grades — and ask if you're "on drugs".
If that sounds familiar, this essay may prove interesting. It uses the game my friends and I started — but didn't finish — in High School over 30 years ago, to explore the absurd programming contortions we did to make it playable on the Apple IIgs: The red-headed stepchild of the Apple II line; a machine that languished for six years without a hardware upgrade to avoid competing with the Macintosh.
Thanks to the recent release of the first cycle-accurate emulator for this machine, you can actually play the game in all its screen-tearing glory. You can also explore the source code which has survived for 30 years, and been adapted to build on modern hardware thanks to Merlin32 and CiderPress II.
Submission + - PFAS 'forever chemicals' to officially be removed from food packaging, FDA says (livescience.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Manufacturers will no longer use harmful "forever chemicals" in food packaging products in the U.S., according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In a statement released Feb. 28, the agency declared that grease-proofing materials that contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) will not be used in new food packaging sold in the U.S. These include PFAS used in fast-food wrappers, microwave popcorn bags, takeout boxes and pet food bags. The FDA's announcement marks the completion of a voluntary phase-out of the materials by U.S. food packaging manufacturers.
This action will eliminate the "major source of dietary exposure to PFAS," Jim Jones, deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA, said in an associated statement. Companies told the FDA that it could take up to 18 months to completely exhaust the market supply of these products following their final date of sale. However, most of the affected manufacturers phased out the products faster than they initially predicted, the agency noted.
PFAS are a diverse group of synthetic chemicals that resist water, oil, heat and stains, which is why they've historically been used in a wide variety of products, including food packaging, household cleaners and nonstick cookware. PFAS are super durable chemicals that can take years to break down, hence why they're often called "forever chemicals."
Once discarded, PFAS can leak into the environment as they slowly break down, accumulating in soil, rivers and lakes, for instance. The chemicals can also enter the body when people consume water or food that's been exposed to the chemicals during production or packaging, or when they breathe in dust tainted with PFAS. They can accumulate in a person's blood and in breast milk.
Numerous studies have demonstrated the potential health effects of being exposed to different PFAS. For example, the chemincals have linked to disruptions in the immune system, weight gain and decreased fertility in a mixture of animal and human studies, as well as cell-based research.
In a statement released Feb. 28, the agency declared that grease-proofing materials that contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) will not be used in new food packaging sold in the U.S. These include PFAS used in fast-food wrappers, microwave popcorn bags, takeout boxes and pet food bags. The FDA's announcement marks the completion of a voluntary phase-out of the materials by U.S. food packaging manufacturers.
This action will eliminate the "major source of dietary exposure to PFAS," Jim Jones, deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA, said in an associated statement. Companies told the FDA that it could take up to 18 months to completely exhaust the market supply of these products following their final date of sale. However, most of the affected manufacturers phased out the products faster than they initially predicted, the agency noted.
PFAS are a diverse group of synthetic chemicals that resist water, oil, heat and stains, which is why they've historically been used in a wide variety of products, including food packaging, household cleaners and nonstick cookware. PFAS are super durable chemicals that can take years to break down, hence why they're often called "forever chemicals."
Once discarded, PFAS can leak into the environment as they slowly break down, accumulating in soil, rivers and lakes, for instance. The chemicals can also enter the body when people consume water or food that's been exposed to the chemicals during production or packaging, or when they breathe in dust tainted with PFAS. They can accumulate in a person's blood and in breast milk.
Numerous studies have demonstrated the potential health effects of being exposed to different PFAS. For example, the chemincals have linked to disruptions in the immune system, weight gain and decreased fertility in a mixture of animal and human studies, as well as cell-based research.
Comment Eraserhead (Score 3) 110
The first thing that I thought of when seeing the headline for this article was the man made chicken in Eraserhead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead)
A movie that has to be the strangest most surreal movie I have ever seen.
Comment Re:Why not just use a web site? (Score 5, Informative) 94
The https://developer.mozilla.org/... highlights the differences
Comment South park (Score 1) 62
Using electricity worked for Cartman https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Undo mod (Score 1) 147
Undo bad mod
Comment Re:why is token replay possible? (Score 4, Informative) 74
It is a well known issue with TOTP replay. The RFC (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238#section-5.2) does highlight the issue
"
Note that a prover may send the same OTP inside a given time-step
window multiple times to a verifier. The verifier MUST NOT accept
the second attempt of the OTP after the successful validation has
been issued for the first OTP, which ensures one-time only use of an
OTP.
"
Other schemes such as HOTP and U2F explicitly prevent replay...
Comment Re:Long overdue executive firings⦠(Score 1) 70
The tweet is
Peter Navarro releases 36-page report alleging election fraud 'more than sufficient' to swing victory to Trump https://t.co/D8KrMHnFdK . A great report by Peter. Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!
See https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0...
https://www.politifact.com/art...
Comment Re:Long overdue executive firings⦠(Score 1) 70
Comment A little bit like road rage (Score 1) 65
From some of the comments here and experience with social media I do feel it is similar to road rage. Some of the nicest people turn into very angry people and do and say things they would never do if the person was standing in front of them. Social media only enables more of this anti social behavior where there is zero comeback for your actions.
Comment Re:How did Samsung retake the lead it already had? (Score 2) 39
What I don't understand is how they are in the lead. The last time I bought a Samsung phone which was about 10 years ago, I discovered the Samsung bloatware could not be removed. From then on when it came to deciding on a smartphone it was anything except Samsung.
Comment Re:Reneging offers. (Score 1) 102
A signed written offer seems to have more of a legal basis. I wonder what the California employment law says about this? Would you get to keep the sign on bonus plus one pay cycle? Any CA employment lawyers here with an opinion?
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